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Happy New Year!

I've been experimenting with portraits and pattern.

Diminutive paintings with little borders.

More is more. Pattern on pattern. Layer upon layer.

I made several lists - as I always do - of people I'd like to paint.

Plans, though, are made to be changed.

I began with some ladies of fashion and then jumped to 

women naturalists and gardeners of which Vita Sackville-West 

is the first. However, I've side stepped and started Virginia Woolf,

so I have no idea where it will all end up but that's fine by me.

It's a year for doing new things.

that is for sure.